10 years= basically a lifetime.

the biggest problem with selling electric cars is that the market demo is exclusively homeowners... i live in a shitty apartment building built at some point between 1950-80, and so does the majority of people living in major cities, i do not have access even to a shitty household 110 plug in my underground parking…

My issues with Tesla stem from their price being ridiculous for what you actually get. Mid 80's build quality coupled with mid’90's Mazda exterior design. And I include the Model 3 in that assessment after driving one at a Tesla lot, and one of my colleague’s personal ones. A lot of people seem to be fooled by the…

yes - like aren’t podcasts just the radio shows my parents listened to in the 40s?

And to be fair, gas has always been rather cheap in the US. Assuming you drive an average of 15K miles per year, get an average of only 20mpg, and gas somehow is $4 for an entire year, your spending $3K on fuel that year. That doesn’t seem bad considering most people don’t drive that far, the national average only…

Outside of the Super Bowl in most markets (I’m a Pats fan so was great here!) I think the NFL actually had a bounceback year.  The last few years had been junk but the 2018 season was really aesthetically pleasing, even if the SB was a steaming pile of poo

My beef with Tesla has nothing to do with their cars - and everything to do with their complete lack of ability to support the cars they’ve sold. A very good friend of mine has a Model 3 with a broken frunk actuator. It’s been broken for four months now, and parts still haven’t arrived.

The point Jalopnik is often making isn’t about the actual cars they make, it’s about the business practices which are shady as hell. GM or Ford would get decinated by shareholders if they missed estimates like this or if they kept lying about production capacity or if they consistently violated safety regulations like…

I don’t think it’s the company or it’s products that engender such vitriol. It’s the man. He rubs people the wrong way. He’s so full of himself, and some people would like to see him fall flat on his face. 

“It’s amazing how much people like to hate on Tesla.”

1) Gas prices were 50% higher in 2008. This is typical spring price movement, I’d hardly call it the stratosphere.

“stratosphere” — does nobody remember 2010-2015? Still nowhere close to what gas was for a really, really long time.

Tesla's own inability to execute is the core issue 

I had a conversation with an adjuster that at some point strayed to EVs. He told me that they’re having a hell of a time with Teslas because repair costs after collisions are hard to estimate because parts availability is so hit and miss. As in, you don’t know whether the owner/insured will be in a rental for a couple…

I have no qualms about likely permanently blinding him - frankly I would’ve murdered him if I could have. You try to rape someone, I find it entirely justified for the victim to try to kill her (or his) assailant in self defense.. it is no less than they deserve. The disgusting thing here in Canada though is that if a…

“visibly erect, making noises and groaning.”

Nah, you’re thinking of the Chamber Pot of Secrets.

My tilting at windmills thing: trying to correct the prevailing sentiment on the Internet that Rowling randomly revealed Dumbledore was gay as an attempt to get attention or plaudits. She was directly ASKED during a Q&A publicity tour for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. There was nothing random about it.

Most of…

It’s a power move. There’s no greater way to indicate to someone how monumentally bored you are by them then to shit on the floor right in front of them while they’re talking, then casually magic it away.

Compared to majestic, open-air Hogwarts, the actual civic capital of the Wizarding World being a giant basement under London was such a letdown. As with much of Year 5, it augured the franchise’s swift and steep decline.